skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual user here. Some of them seem to be unreliable (I have those 100GB discs) and not like the older batches I had. DM me for stats if you are interested in knowing what happened.

But they're not fake - apparently they got bought out and the new media IDs belong to them.

Verbatim 25GB M-Discs are great. Have an archival copy of my files in addition to my NAS stuff. The important files are often small, so I use regular these smaller capacity M-Discs for them.
Is it implemented?
I’m not sure about that, but I can tell you that the UK has been regressing in: healthcare, policing, education, road infrastructure, rail infrastructure, immigration control and social care for the last 10-15 years amongst other things. The median disposable salary has also been decreasing.
"How Communists Made Unbreakable Glass"

What a loaded headline.
> if that happens without competitors

It does almost by definition. Sewers are a natural monopoly, it's physically infeasible to switch providers.
So you believe our legal system should not punish executives of a company that is:

- publicly traded

- more powerful than many entire countries

- committing crimes

...when those executives explicitly switched to disappearing messaging in order to cover up those crimes?

Context matters. I don't want to live in a world where people can avoid prosecution just by deleting evidence.
Thanks for one of the only rational replies to this thread. I often hold back from commenting at all on HN as the replies are so often full of low effort non-constructive criticisms.
Which book has inspired you the most in your career or personal development?
Mine is Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck. It taught me the power of a growth mindset, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
PDEP-13: The Pandas Logical Type System
You make implicit assumptions you had during development explicit through code or comments which doesn't actually effect runtime execution speed since it only runs in debug/compile time.

There's a place for formal verification, usually in places where a bug causes death or significant financial loss.
Show HN: Can you guess the note? Musical ear test
Joining as a lead engineer in a startup, everything we do on the web will be Elixir. After three stints with Next.js “backends” at previous places I have vowed to myself to never use it or take a job where they use it ever again.
Lol you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

(a) The massive plastic producers are multinational oil companies, and they see it as a growing industry to capitalize on, so they are extremely influential lobbyists for maintaining plastic production.

(b) Anything that makes shipping lighter, cheaper, and generally more viable will result in much more shipping and thus much greater emissions, not less. This is always the problem with efficiency-driven arguments. (But it takes understanding the complexity of systems to understand this.)

(c) Of course the ecosystemic outcomes are devastating, and we still barely have the knowledge to understand the full impact.

Here’s a quick article if you want to educate yourself a bit more, I’m not going to keep replying: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/18/twenty-f...
I am curious whether this is true - OAI at least has the reputation in the industry of caring the least about safety of the major labs
I think the free market is probably a better outcome as long as there is oversight and regulation. The problem is weak regulation.

I say that because I remember the nationalised services in the UK in the 70s and 80s and they were a complete mess. My mother spent 1/4 of her life arguing with the gas board, the council and British Rail after things went to crap. It definitely improved when privatised even if it’s not perfect.

The public services were not accountable and were completely untouchable to the end user and any legal recourse.
I don’t know or understand this multiplier effect you’re referring to. If you’d like to persuade me (and I assume other readers) explaining your argument might be more effective. Instead I get a sense of “don’t argue against me” as opposed to “this is why I’m right”
Corporations buying up neighborhoods is a problem regardless of whether it applies in this case or not.

Corporations don't die and turn their houses over to kids. Home ownership is widely regarded as the best way to build wealth, and corporate buy-ups are making an already difficult market permanently off-limits to millions of Americans.

But are politicians acting on that? No. They're busy passing corrupt developer-handout legislation like CA's (recently struck-down) SB 9.

We have a chance to stop this scourge before it's too late. Have you called your representatives about it?
I like the idea in the abstract, but I doubt I'll see a synthetic meat/milk/coffee substitute that equals the real deal for many years, if ever. I'm more worried about the synthetic stuff becoming just good enough that, with the power of marketing and appealing to one's morals, people switch over but not good enough to be a real replacement.
Realpage put many roadblocks in the way of customers using prices not provided by the system. A couple:

Rent overrides required written business justifications, would often trigger follow ups to the agent attempting the override and then their management to dissuade them, and eventually might be refused in the end.

Realpage monitored compliance of customers using their provided prices and those who didn’t meet a certain level would be kicked off the platform.

Pages 17-22 here: https://oag.dc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/DC%20OAG%20Re...
Ok, well let’s say it’s what Britain voted for, even if they were generally wilfully ignorant as to what they were actually voting for.

For what it’s worth, I remember ecological campaigns against privatisation of water - I remember a greenpeace chap giving a talk at school saying it would result in sewage on beaches and in rivers - and here we are.

Information was available. A choice was made. We reap the consequences.
Taking down a big name has many more risks, and costs a lot more money. And a outside critic is different from an inside wisleblower.
ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones
35 Year Old Computers That Still Work? [video]
> It sounds like you’re in favor of change via top down regulations, so you’re not arguing for bottom up reduction of consumption.

It could be achieved either way. If you want to e.g. replace gasoline cars with electric cars, you could have some kind of government incentives, or you as an individual could just choose to buy an electric car and put solar panels on your roof to charge it.

> people who do argue for reducing consumption must consider the fact that consumption hinges on consumers

But it doesn't. The rate of consumption is number of consumers times consumption per consumer. You can increase number of consumers while reducing consumption per consumer and end up with a net reduction, as long as the latter is larger. Since consumption per person can get arbitrarily close to zero, it's entirely consistent to want to get there that way than by reducing the population, which has all kinds of terrible consequences.

> Having your own children is often viewed as a selfless act, which is weird

It costs a significant amount of money and primarily benefits someone else (the child). You have to forego a lot of luxury vacations and early retirement to pay for books and food and college.

> if you do that when you could adopt an orphan

The fertility rate is below the population-replacement rate. That includes the orphans. If the fertility rate was only the orphans, it would be far lower than it even is already and we would be completely screwed. Not only that, by your logic the orphans' parents are selfish too, but then who is it that you think should be having kids if the human race is not to go extinct?
Yeah I agree formal hardware verification is an order of magnitude easier to use.

My guess is it's because the problem is so much simpler. No variables, no loops, no recursion, etc.
This is resolvable with regulation and operation conditions being in place. We just have very weak regulation in some sectors.
I would say there are very different kinds of grind. One that leaves you exhausted, but satisfied with it and one that just leaves you empty. I would say our civilisation is full of the latter and this is not something to be found in the animal kingdom, as it is also not found in human indigenous tribes. Don't get me wrong, there surely is misery and hardship in the "natural" life as well. But a hungry hunter does not have to look for meaning in his work - he knows the meaning is literal food. A modern office job also means food, but way more abstract and disconnected and often requores to do things, we did not optimize fore during evolution.
The old matrix quote;

"Never send a human to do a machine's job"

A better alternative:

Apply some AI!

Actual Intelligence!

go to the library and read some books.

get a masters degree by reading some books.

In fact just read books.

The lost art of reading books.

The lost art of being human.
Thanks for the clarification and the info.
What are you talking about?

Why shouldn't people be allowed to choose what kind of neighborhood they want to live in? If you want high density, then choose a high-density area. If not, choose a single-family area. Those areas can be (and are) defined by zoning.
You sound a bit credulous :)
That is interesting. I wonder if there are any Switch games which have had their servers turned of and if an emulator can be argued to be made for the purpose of supporting that game only (that it then happens to play other games...)
The privatisation of infrastructure with no possibility of competition existing is simply a way to loot the countries wealth like a dictator can. Except it is done under the cover of "free markets".
No, this is not true. By default, starting a private chat with another employee defaulted to “history off” (as far as I can remember; I left Google >1 year ago now).
> Yes, but it might raise oil prices, effectively making the carbon tax apply globally.

Which major countries could already do through tariffs on any country not collecting it, without giving the money to OPEC.
> cutting corners while getting paid the same and pocketing the difference.

It’s not even just that. They have borrowed £60billion(!) and given it to shareholders as dividends.

People should be in jail.
Wall Street records all calls. Has forever, since long before storage was cheap.
What about privacy? Can I run sensitive data on these strangers' GPUs?
Not only memories but also specific intentions for action are unlikely to be well retained in the mind over long periods of time without conceptual language. There is an assumption that language did not originate as a means of communication in the first place, but as a tool to enable intentional and coordinated action in the group at a higher level. Sending someone out in search of food when they are not immediately driven by hunger, without them following another impulse after five minutes, is probably hardly possible if they cannot carry the task with them in their head in a linguistically fixed form.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262772
There are government resources available which give also give daily pollution forecasts and all bathing water quality testing data, overflow locations etc. The testing is pretty good, I've seen them don a wetsuit and swim or wade out a bit to get samples.

environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/

Storm overflow outputs are pretty predictable atm, for around 24hrs after ANY rainfall, it will advise against bathing. The situation is dire.

What personally annoys me is the very disrespectful behaviour of the seeming majority of english residents who are perfectly happy to pave, tarmac or concrete their entire front garden to fill with cars, then replace the rear lawn with 'artificial grass'. Add this to the general transport development culture of builing bigger and wider roads, and any development in general, it all creates greater and faster run off.

Something needs to be done. Support SAS.
> Those complaining are a minority, or else they would have representation in parliament that would have lead to a different outcome - and yes, you can wring your hands about how FPTP makes for an unfair democracy - but they voted for that too when given the choice to switch to STV, recently.

The AV referendum was indeed lost, but that does not guarantee the correctness of your other claim, that "those complaining are a minority, or else they would have representation in parliament that would have lead to a different outcome".

The party in power in the UK is usually less than half of all votes cast.

And even when not, that it is representative democracy rather than referendums on literally every question means that voters have to collapse all the various topics they care about into one question of "which colour do I pick?" every couple of years — in an election there is no way to represent "I like Blue national defence, Red personal freedom, Green environmental issues, and Yellow on electoral reform", so looking at the debates listed on Wikipedia with the benefit of hindsight, even though I'm bi and the Blue party was homophobic, I might well have voted Blue due to this from the Red party:

"""On 24 May, Kinnock was interviewed by David Frost and claimed that Labour's alternative defence strategy in the event of a Soviet attack would be "using the resources you've got to make any occupation totally untenable".[citation needed] In a speech two days later Thatcher attacked Labour's defence policy as a programme for "defeat, surrender, occupation, and finally, prolonged guerrilla fighting ... I do not understand how anyone who aspires to Government can treat the defence of our country so lightly".[9]""" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_el...

In 1987, the Red party was seen as a shower of incompetence much like the Blue party is today.
I just had this talk with someone else's mother, and didn't know how to carry the conversation. Going along with what-if was my best option.

However, your hypothesis is very compelling.

Context about developing self-awareness (from some random site): https://www.fatherly.com/health/children-five-stages-self-aw...
I THINK it is FM, narrow FM. My SDR receives some attenuated incomplete-sounding signal when switched to AM on 162.55 MHz even if I widen the bandwidth, and switching to narrow FM gets me the same clarity and volume as my actual weather radio provided I lower the gain a little.
Mind the Gap – The story of Embankment station's announcement
There are no drawbacks if you have a Blu-Ray drive. Even the software and the filesystem I use to write on them - UDF 1.02 - are supported on computers 25 years older, even Windows 98. Since this is read-only, it makes it a safe choice.

It's almost as if one is very comfortable with CDs, and then had to a 6x bump to DVDs, and then a further 6x bump to BDs. And then another 4x bump to 100GB BDs.

Only difference is that the FS you may end up using may not have Joliet/ISO9660 portions but just plain old UDF. You can always write any ISOs you want to smaller discs, or avoid long file names etc. and stay compatible - and if you're building data backups, do your research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

There is some concern because some distributions in the past used to deny/disallow the UDF module https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/115269/centos-6-4-u... but I've never run into any problems using a UDF image, like, ever. Linux support on any 2.4.x kernel and above has been fine.
Is this method used during training? Seems to me there could be a point to only backpropagate when the model is wrong?
> Who was making that assertion? I certainly wasn't.

But you were responding to my comment, and that was the implied part in it (which I later clarified to answer your question).

> In the same way I am never going to tell my non-engineer friends to build their own todo app instead of just using something like Todoist. But if they told me they cared about data privacy/security, I'd walk them through the steps if they cared to hear them.

Fortunately for most apps there's a middle ground between “use a spyware” and “build your own”, and that's exactly why this tool is much needed for LLM in my opinion.
What gestures have you thought out originally all by yourself and not learned from others?
I worked at Dartmouth College in the CS dept and grad students there were paid and treated as employees (they got health insurance, not sure if they got any other benefits) out of grant funds. It wasn't a lot of money though (the school took a large cut of the PhD student grants for overhead). The profs would often joke that they could guarantee full attendence at meetings if they announced there would be free pizza (for both grads and undergrads). Students often kept boxes of the cheapest breakfast cereals at their desks/workspaces. If test subjects were needed for experiments or people needed to clean the lab just offer them pizza. It gave them power over the students, and they didn't really seem to care that students were always hungry, maybe some of them just assumed young people are always hungry. They sometimes made grad students buy supplies necessary to their work with the students own funds. I believe the grad students are now unionized there, so things may have changed. Loans often cover tuition and sometimes a cafeteria food plan. If you don't like the food you have to buy your own. If you have to pay for the food plan you might not have enough. Paying for food competes with other things also, books, travel, drinks with friends, concerts. Kind of miserable if you have to trade off food versus life, it created a lot of stress. There was a lot of inequality there even though it is an ivy league college, some students had SUV's and would go on trips to France for holidays, some had bicycles/skateboards and boxes of cereal and didn't go anywhere on holidays.
North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
I live on Bobby Tables Close.
I’ve been waiting for something like that in the HPC space for years - that’s what I wanted when HSA first came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_System_Architect...
Watching all that monster-size equipment makes me think of the Olympics: is a lot of money being poured into a single use ?

Was this equipment pre-existing or purpose-built ?

If the latter, will any get re-used/repurposed for other endeavors ?
Yes if the gesture chosen was different our reaction would be different. That's the point. If you had said nonsense, I would not have understood.
Banks are required to by the SEC
> Well, that could certainly give the prospective employers plenty of information about the way you behave.

That's the beauty; how would they know? The information is completely unverifiable so all such an interview does is find the person best at telling you what you want to hear.
The issue is that the most likely way forward now is forced nationalization and the taxpayer will end up paying for fixing this mess anyway. So if the taxpayer is going to pay for fixing it, it might as well have been a public service in the first place, in the last 30 years it just served enriching foreign investment funds and now when the things are dire the taxpayer will foot the bill anyway.

The other option is forcing these private companies to fix those issues through legislation, but they will just take the easy route of going bankrupt or they will lobby the government to either give them money or allow them to increase the bills 2-3x so taxpayers will pay for it either way, and shareholders can keep their billions in payouts.
There was a recent kickstarter project from a German company for Glass bottles based on this technology:

https://www.soulbottles.de/en/ultraglass

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulkupfer/ultraglass-s...

Recent update:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulkupfer/ultraglass-s...

The research for this was done at the University of Bayreuth:
https://www.glas.uni-bayreuth.de/en/projects/strongbottles/i...

German TV reported about the background here, 20:45 onwards:

https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/240315-sendung-epigenetik-ar...
Do we have any evidence? Why would anyone use a USD derivative instead of just USD?
This blog guides you on creating Tweets from a Java application using the Twitter API v2. It covers setting up a developer account, creating a project and an app, authorization using OAuth 2.0, and creating the Java application with necessary dependencies. Finally, it explains obtaining a new access token and concludes with a summary of the process.
For those who don’t know it’s like climbing very far up a mountain and then looking up and realising how high the peak actually is, way higher than it looked at ground level.
True, finding that marginal p/m fit is hard. We interviewed 40 target customers and processed all the transcripts into an LLM to arrive at our MVP, still not sure it’s there because of the variables of competition and alternatives.
I would love to see kids given the materials and taught how to build makeshift emergency radios in science class every couple of years. Then they could take them home, stick them in a closet or drawer somewhere, and in case of emergency, they would be everywhere.
I think that's probably right but... that video basically says "you could use string for lots of things long ago, the movie Castaway proved it was necessary, we use string for lots of things today." Short-form videos are not a useful source of information.
Exactly. Just need to build a few more sewer networks so we can have competition.

Many fundamental components of society aren’t amenable to market based competition. The public sector can be inefficient, but in many cases the alternative is a form of economic tyranny that is far far worse. In the UK, most of our key infrastructure has been privatised and it has been a disaster for our economy and for the population. One of the likely causes of the UK’s productivity crisis is the lack of investment in infrastructure caused by privatisation, for example.

This is all rather self-evident but I’m so surprised how very intelligent, highly educated people often are unable to see that government is sometimes superior to the private sector. It seems their judgements are clouded by dogmatic ideology, but because that ideology is capitalism they are unaware that their dogmatism is no different from the others that they regularly mock and criticise.
This is just not how it works in current world. Your world model is off if you think this is a significant contributor to macroscale high rents.
Even that runs afoul of the law :)
Am I missing something, or is there no repo to try it out?
Why Choose ULIDs over Traditional UUIDs or IDs for Database Identification?
Always save a copy of a working PC and Blu-Ray drive that is solar/ambient light powered along with that data. And maybe printed instructions on how to push the power on button. If we are lucky and the beings of that era understand how to get all this together, and decide to pull your data out, it'll be validated.
I’ll confess, sardonicism does not transmit well through the written medium.

All you’ve said is entirely true.
Personal anecdote: that actually saved an important doctor appointment. "URGENT MESSAGE WHEN FLASHING". Well, lights were flashing, guess we could tune to it and hear what it has to say. Sure enough, it announced a traffic jam on our route a few miles ahead that Google Maps vastly underestimated (usually it's been good about that) and we were able to avoid it. Thanks TNDOT.

It was because a chemical truck crashed apparently, on our drive back home it was still there with specialized hazmat emergency vehicles around.